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The '''Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009''' is a piece of legislation passed by the 111th [[United States Congress]] and signed into law on the 29th January, 2009 by the then President of the United States, [[Barack Obama]].

The '''Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009''' is a piece of legislation passed by the 111th [[United States Congress]] and signed into law on the 29th January, 2009 by the then President of the United States, [[Barack Obama]].

The Act supersedes the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decision made in the 2007 case, ''Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'', 550 U.S. 618 (2007).  The Supreme Court finding in that case ruled that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an lawsuit in regards to a question of equal pay begins at the date the pay was agreed upon, not at the date of the most recent paycheck received by the plaintiff.  The decision made by the Supreme Court meant that somebody who discovered that they had experienced discrimination in regards to pay, but did not make that discovery for more than six months after having agreed the amount of pay to be received, had no legal recourse to challenge the question of whether they had been discriminated against in the matter of pay.  With the implementation of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 any plaintiff who wished to make a claim of pay discrimination had a 180 day statute of limitation timed from the date of the last paycheck that they had received.<ref>http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h2831pcs.txt.pdf</ref>

The Act supersedes the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decision made in the 2007 case, ''Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'', 550 U.S. 618 (2007).  The Supreme Court finding in that case ruled that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an lawsuit in regards to a question of equal pay begins at the date the pay was agreed upon, not at the date of the most recent paycheck received by the plaintiff.  The decision left open the possibility that a plaintiff could sue because she only recently learned about the discrimination, or sue under other discrimination laws with a longer statute of limitations.  With the implementation of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 any plaintiff who wished to make a claim of pay discrimination had a 180 day statute of limitation timed from the date of the last paycheck that they had received.<ref>http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h2831pcs.txt.pdf</ref>

== Passage of the bill ==

== Passage of the bill ==